Roast bird record at Mojave solar plant even worse than predicted? Plant workers call them “streamers.” Birds that fly through the beams of concentrated sunlight at the massive Ivanpah solar […]
Renewable Energy Industry CEO looks to the future
Suggests government policy/subsidies – not free market – give wildlife conflicting, utility-scale projects an edge over distributed generation NRG Energy CEO David Crane, lead investor in the controversial Ivanpah Solar […]
Ivanpah solar project would disturb thousands of desert tortoises
The Ivanpah solar thermal project consists of 5.4 square miles of high quality habitat for the Endangered Species Act protected desert tortoise, a fact that developers (and some investors) underestimated […]
BLM halts some construction at Ivanpah Power Plant
Threshold Number of ESA Protected Desert Tortoise Killed In Construction of Solar Thermal Plant We just received notice that the BLM has suspended construction of some of the the Ivanpah […]
Biologists scour Mojave in desert tortoise roundup.
What has this society come to? Construction of the Ivanpah Solar plant starts. Clear the land of life for power generation that could be achieved by installing solar panels on […]
Environmentalists make plea for desert preservation
A group of environmentalists says renewable energy goal shouldn’t come with destruction of native plant, animal life In the Ivanpah Solar site lies on public lands in the center of […]